Deleuze and Religion - Hardcover

Bryden, Mary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 041524028X ISBN 13: 9780415240284

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

Despite the ever-expanding body of Deleuzian scholarship, single volume has explored the religious dimensions of Delueze's writing. Now, Mary Bryden has assembled a team of international scholars to do just that. Their essays illustrate the ways in which Deleuzian thought is antithetical to religious debate, as well as the ways in which it contributes to those debates.
This volume will be invaluable for researchers, teachers and students of theology, philosophy, critical theory, cultural studies and literary criticism as well as to students of French who read Deleuze's work in its original language.

About this title

Synopsis:

Although not a believer himself, Gilles Deleuze's philosophical thinking nevertheless engages with notions of Godhead, belief, spirituality, cosmology and Biblical research, as well as exhibiting the deep influences of such theists as Spinoza. However, despite the considerable, and ever-expanding body of scholarship that exists on Deleuze's work, until now, no single volume has explored the religious implications and connections of Deleuze's thinking. Now, Mary Bryden has assembled a team of international scholars, all experts on Deleuzian thought, to do just that. Among the subjects considered are Deleuze's own critique of God-hypotheses and his analysis of those theological elements present in other philosophers' work. This collection will be invaluable for researchers, teachers and students of Theology, Philosophy, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, as well as students of French who read Deleuze's work in its original language. This collection of essays offers a varied and stimulating selection of cross-disciplinary approaches towards the linkage of Deleuzian thought with religion.

About the Author:

Mary Bryden is a senior lecturer in the Department of French at the University of Reading. Her previous publications include Samuel Beckett and the Idea of God (Macmillan 1998) and Samuel Beckett and Music (Oxford University Press, 1998).

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 041524028X
• ISBN 13: 9780415240284
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 220